Some of the urgent inexplicable emotions which visit us from time
to time, immense, far-reaching, mysterious, are, I believe with all
my heart, the pulsations of this vast life outside us, stirring for
an instant the silence of our sleeping spirit. It is possible, I
cannot help feeling, that those people live the best of all
possible lives who devote themselves to receiving these pulsations.
It may well be that in following anxiously the movement of the
world, in giving ourselves to politics or business, or technical
religion, or material cares, we are but delaying the day of our
freedom by throwing ourselves intently into our limitations, and
forgetting the wider life. It may be that the life which Christ
seems to have suggested as the type of Christian life--the life of
constant prayer, simple and kindly relations, indifference to
worldly conditions, absence of ambitions, fearlessness, sincerity--
may be the life in which we can best draw near to the larger
spirit--for Christ spoke as one who knew some prodigious secret, as
one in whose soul the larger life leapt and plunged like fresh sea-
billows; who was incapable of sin and even of temptation, because
His soul had free and open contact with the all-pervading spirit,
and to whom the human limitations were no barrier at all.
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